Harder Plastic in Recent Bandai Kinkeshi Gashapon Figures?

I just purchased two figures from Vol. 4 of Bandai's recent Kinkeshi Gashapon toys - Omegaman and Silverman - and was SHOCKED to discover that they're made of harder plastic! They feel very much like M.U.S.C.L.E. figures.

So please help me! Which Kinkeshi series use this harder plastic? Is it standard now?

Every Kinkeshi figure I've ever owned, from the '80s or later years, has been made of the typical eraser-like, softer rubber. Honestly, I've always wished they were more durable and sturdier like Mattel's figures. So this discovery blew my mind and made me really happy. I'd love to buy more Kinkeshi that are made in this manner.

I just purchased two figures from Vol. 4 of Bandai's recent Kinkeshi Gashapon toys - Omegaman and Silverman - and was SHOCKED to discover that they're made of harder plastic! They feel very much like M.U.S.C.L.E. figures.

So please help me! Which Kinkeshi series use this harder plastic? Is it standard now?

Every Kinkeshi figure I've ever owned, from the '80s or later years, has been made of the typical eraser-like, softer rubber. Honestly, I've always wished they were more durable and sturdier like Mattel's figures. So this discovery blew my mind and made me really happy. I'd love to buy more Kinkeshi that are made in this manner.

Interests:Impressing the ladies with my M.U.S.C.L.E. But mostly I just offend them. Guess #33 isn't the best intro.

Posted 03 March 2018 - 01:33 PM

The 1991 Kinnikusutensu Competition Edition Kinkeshi seem to be similar material and they also don't melt, correct? They're firmer than other vintage keshi and I keep my two of them with the new premiumish types. Seemingly these start in 2017. I got four from kinkeshi 02, not all colors but all figures of kinkeshi 03, and I got the premium vol 3. The quality seems the same between the ones actually called premium and not called such. Getting the premium vol .3 box with display windows really feels like getting an old MUSCLE 28-pack, except it's 15 figures. Freaking cool! And it has the names in Japanese of all the figures on the back. The regular Kinkeshi 03 are in random blind boxes, 12 little full color boxes inside one big monochrome box. Or I guess they might come in capsules from vending machines too like the 02 ones I got.